At least they'll be something extra to add to Estate Agents blurb: house situated in the favoured 'West Bengeo' location

But seriously, yes, it is a good idea - especially along Duncombe Road when frustrated drivers appear to speed up after being caught in the infamous Rat Run. Not sure how it'll be enforced, though. Maybe the Police will do a double shift after an hour in Cross Road stopping no right turns from Bengeo Street?!

Only this lunchtime I was nearly mowed down by a BMW doing around 40 - 50 mph in Duncombe Road !

What is it with BMW's and breaking the speed limit ?

On a different topic has anyone else noticed how on motorway slip roads joining the carriageway - BMW drivers nearly always try to go from the slip road to the fast lane in the shortest possible distance (regardless of what other cars are in their way) ?

Really? Really? Attacking the choice of cars again? Do you have evidence of the alleged Slip Road behaviour? Is it 'nearly always' or have you witnessed it a couple of times and at least once it was a BMW so ergo all BMW drivers are awful?

On the BMW thing - I'm sure there are a small percentage that stick to the speed limits and don't do the slip lane to fast lane thing. However, in 30 years of driving I can safely say that I can predict with a fair degree of certainty what a BM driver will do. I give them plenty of room on passing slip roads and pull over when I sight them in my rear view mirror (even if I am going fast enough to overtake cars on the inner lanes myself).

The incident in Duncombe road with the 3 series doing 50mph really annoyed me - they could have easily killed someone with all the parked cars etc. It is not an isolated incident either - a few weeks beforehand I witnessed an X5 nearly go into a pensioner in a Fiesta at the junction of Duncombe and Church Road. The woman in the X5 then used the size of her car to intimidate the Fiesta driver into getting out the way (the whole time the woman in the X5 was on her mobile phone). I gave the X5 driver a long stare - she gave me the finger - nice !

On the whole I don't believe in generalizing but this is one stereotype that is appropriate in at least 80-90% of BMW drivers IMHO.

Threadman I must disagree with you. I do not find that every BMW drives like that.

The 3 series and X5 series are truly shocking behaviour, absolutely, but that does not mean every BMW driver behaves like that. I drive a 5 series and never speed in the towns, abhor use of phones when driving, just too dangerous, and do not bully drivers. So I am sorry, but I do not fit your stereotype and get fed up of being pigeonholed and assumptions made because of the car I drive.

I love it - degrees of stereotypicality based on model number. Someone should produce a guide for the uninitiated about the humanity of the 5 series driver and the artistic flair possessed by the M6 Gran Coupe set...